Catherine Franz offers Journaling Tips

Catherine Franz offers tips for keeping a journal and I found her advice very beneficial. She is a public speaker, a motivator, a life coach, a writer and a broadcaster, to name a few of her recognized personal and professional skills. I recently learned about her while reading an article she wrote that was presented on a blog called Journal for You. I arrived there because I had searched Google with the word “journaling,” and characteristic of web surfing where one link led to another, I landed on the article called 8 Great Journaling Tips. I found it to be a helpful guide for journaling because it was written by an accomplished individual and it gave me permission to write freely without regard to structure.

Franz’s tips for journaling offered more advice on how journaling could benefit me than advice on how I should structure my journal. Her message, in short, was to enjoy the experience and to let it (the experience) be my own. Her tips made the idea of writing for pleasure inviting, as opposed to penning only the facts. Whether my journaling is done in art journal fashion or as a historical literary account, the pages become an extension of me for the future. In Tip #7 she says “Emphasize process rather than product. An important purpose of journal writing is simply expressing and recording your thoughts and feelings.”

You’re invited to click here to read 8 Great Journaling Tips by Catherine Franz.